Dancing Quotes - Page 2

• Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dance, Ballet Class, Mystery

  Charles Baudelaire, Rosemary Lloyd (1991). “The prose poems and La Fanfarlo”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: 'When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?'

  Angeles Arrien

  Sweet, Life Changing, Medicine

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• In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.

  Breyten Breytenbach

  Enemy, Steps, Counting

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• Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

  Charles Baudelaire

  Merit, Mysterious, Being Human

  Charles Baudelaire (1986). “La Fanfarlo”

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• Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dance, Ballet, Legs

  Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.22

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• The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

  Mata Hari

  Love, Dance, Art

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• I believe that we learn by practice... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Believe, Practice

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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• Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

  William James

  Funny, Dance, Laughter

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• I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Ballet Class, Trying

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• Work like you don't need the money.

  Joseph Joubert

  Dance, Work, Hippie

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• We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Dance, Cosmos, Alive

  "Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation".

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• Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

  W. H. Auden

  Dance, Ballet Class, Rafters

  'Letter to William Coldstream, Esq.' (1937).

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• You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt

  William Watson Purkey

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

  Ted Shawn

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

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• Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

  Mary Schmich

  Inspirational, Dance, Ballet Class

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.33, Agate Digital

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• He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery Than crushing His African children with slavery, Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion, Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows, Approaches the heart through the door of the toes.

  James Russell Lowell

  Crush, Christian, Spiritual

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.316, Delphi Classics

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• Nobody cares if you can't dance well.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Healing, Ballet Class

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• Look, spaghetti arms. This is my dance space. This is your dance space. I don't go into yours, you don't go into mine. You gotta hold the frame.

  Eleanor Bergstein

  Dance, Space, Looks

  "Dirty Dancing". www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

  Xiaolu Guo

  Dance, Courage, Heart

  Xiaolu Guo (2014). “Kleines Wörterbuch für Liebende: Roman”, p.95, Albrecht Knaus Verlag

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• Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise.

  Rumi

  Dance, Noise, Worship

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• Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.

  Robert Palmer

  Musical, Trying, Architecture

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• To dance is to live ...to live is to dance.

  Heidi Groskreutz

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• Life is a continuity always and always. There is no final destination it is going towards. Just the pilgrimage, just the journey in itself is life, not reaching to some point, no goal - just dancing and being in pilgrimage, moving joyously, without bothering about any destination.

  Rajneesh

  Moving, Journey, Goal

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• Dancing came easy to me.

  Hedda Hopper

  Easy

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• Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

  Clive James

  Nails, Giants, Knocking

  Clive James (2015). “The Crystal Bucket”, p.103, Pan Macmillan

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